| Pages in topic: < [1 2 3] > | Spellcheck with Trados 6.5 in Word 2000 Thread poster: Alison Schwitzgebel
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It is sometimes helpfull.
Just delete it.
Maybe conflicts with other templates like Duden, Dragon, etc.?
My 2 cents
Toledo
[Edited at 2004-05-31 16:40]
| | | | Ralf Lemster 
Germany
Local time: 12:21
English to German
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| Renaming normal.dot rather than deleting it | May 31, 2004 |
Toledo wrote:
It ist sometimes helpfull.
Just delete it.
It's true that a corrupt normal.dot template can create various problems. However, as normal.dot holds user-defined settings, it's better to rename it (e.g. to normal_old.dot) rather than just deleting it. In this way it will still be possible to retrieve such settings, such as AutoText entries.
Ralf
| | | | Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 12:21
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| Don't delete Normal.dot | May 31, 2004 |
but rename it to Normal.do_ or similar - this may indeed be a kind of help, but not very likely, as it is a clean new installation. But renaming Normal.dot lets you restore its settings, while after deleting nothing more is possible.
Regards
Jerzy
| | | | | It is a new installation | May 31, 2004 |
What kind of setting you have if the computer is new and with a new installtion?
Other thing.
Search for ~normal.dot files and delete it (or save it)
and for ~trados and other dot files starting with "~" they are corrupt.,
Never save changes into Trados.dot!
Jerzy Czopik wrote:
but rename it to Normal.do_ or similar - this may indeed be a kind of help, but not very likely, as it is a clean new installation. But renaming Normal.dot lets you restore its settings, while after deleting nothing more is possible.
Regards
Jerzy
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| Spellcheck doesn't work, but the thesaurus does.... | May 31, 2004 |
Now here's a funny thing.... The story so far:
German spellcheck: works just fine
Languages enabled on new computer: German and English
Updates: all present and correct
Text marked as being: English USA
English spellcheck: doesn't work
BUT....
English thesaurus: works, correctly identifies language variant and spelling errors.
I've submitted a support request to Microsoft (and the MVPs). Let's... See more Now here's a funny thing.... The story so far:
German spellcheck: works just fine
Languages enabled on new computer: German and English
Updates: all present and correct
Text marked as being: English USA
English spellcheck: doesn't work
BUT....
English thesaurus: works, correctly identifies language variant and spelling errors.
I've submitted a support request to Microsoft (and the MVPs). Let's see what they come up with.
Right now I can still spellcheck the files (very indirectly) using my old computer (which is networked with the new laptop), but that's a very long way round to do a simple spellcheck.
Thanks for all your help!
Alison ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Not quite sure what you mean | May 31, 2004 |
Toledo wrote:
What kind of setting you have if the computer is new and with a new installtion?
I'm not quite sure what you mean here... I'm running Office 2000 under Windows XP....
| | | | | No ~ files... | May 31, 2004 |
Toledo wrote:
Search for ~normal.dot files and delete it (or save it)
and for ~trados and other dot files starting with "~" they are corrupt.,
Just searched - I have no files starting with ~.
| | | | Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 12:21
English to German
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| Support Request to Trados | May 31, 2004 |
Hi Alison,
I've submitted a support request to Microsoft (and the MVPs).
Submit a Support Request to Trados in Stuttgart, too - I'll alert them to this thread.
Cheers, Ralf
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Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 12:21
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| Copy and paste | May 31, 2004 |
spellcheck dll´s from your old PC to the new laptop, making a backup of the new installed ones prior to doing so (it is simply enough to delete them - they are in a bin, it is the same, as would you have copied them elswhere on your PC, unless you do emty your bin immediately or press SHIFT+DEL, wchich deletes the files permanently - at least for usuall tools).
Sometimes such nasty tricks do work.
Regards
Jerzy
PS
The mentioned dll´s are located in:<... See more spellcheck dll´s from your old PC to the new laptop, making a backup of the new installed ones prior to doing so (it is simply enough to delete them - they are in a bin, it is the same, as would you have copied them elswhere on your PC, unless you do emty your bin immediately or press SHIFT+DEL, wchich deletes the files permanently - at least for usuall tools).
Sometimes such nasty tricks do work.
Regards
Jerzy
PS
The mentioned dll´s are located in:
...\\Programme\\Gemeinsame Dateien\\Microsoft Shared\\Proof...
I would simply try to rename this folder in your new PC to ie Proof_test and then copy the whole Proof folder from the old one at the same place.
Do you know where your pesonal auto corrections and spellchecker-files are? This just for the case, you don´t - let me know, as it is possible to migrate them from one PC to another. With XP you do this with a smart creator from MS, but I don´t remember, if Office 2k has had such one.
Regards
Jerzy ▲ Collapse
| | | | | It was just a reply to the comment not to delete... | May 31, 2004 |
normal.dot
it's all
Sorry no more tips.
Alison Riddell-Kachur wrote: Toledo wrote:
What kind of setting you have if the computer is new and with a new installtion?
I'm not quite sure what you mean here... I'm running Office 2000 under Windows XP....
All Word Version comes with 3 language.
The German one with FR and EN
[Edited at 2004-05-31 19:16]
| | | | | nitty gritty stuff.... | May 31, 2004 |
Things are getting wierd here....
So I went looking for normal.dot - and couldn't find it.
So I went into Word and tried to create a new template so I would know what the directory path is.
I created a template called "Vorlage2.dot" and saved it in the place where my computer told me that templates are supposed to go. Turned out to be right beside "normal.dot" - which should be at:
c:/dokumenteundeinstellungen/alison/anwenderdaten/microsoft/vor... See more Things are getting wierd here....
So I went looking for normal.dot - and couldn't find it.
So I went into Word and tried to create a new template so I would know what the directory path is.
I created a template called "Vorlage2.dot" and saved it in the place where my computer told me that templates are supposed to go. Turned out to be right beside "normal.dot" - which should be at:
c:/dokumenteundeinstellungen/alison/anwenderdaten/microsoft/vorlagen/vorlage2.dot.
So I went looking in Explorer for Vorlage 2.
I got as far as
C:/dokumenteundeinstellungen/alison
and then things got strange.
Instead of anwenderdaten I had application data. Fine, so I looked there. And sure enough there was a directory called Microsoft, but all it had in it was a file called MSComctlLib.exd
I then tried searching for Vorlage2.dot (the file I'd just created), but my computer can't find it....
What's going on?
Why can life never be easy... ▲ Collapse
| | | | | can't find normal.dot either | May 31, 2004 |
And I can't find normal.dot either although I know it must be there...
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[Edited at 2004-06-13 15:13]
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Marijke Singer wrote:
Hi Alison,
This may sound really stupid but did you instal the English DLLs on your new computer? I am assuming that your Word 2000 version is in German.
Thanks Marijke - done there, been that. I've even just copied my old DLLs over from my old computer - but still no joy.
| | | | | ^Try with... | May 31, 2004 |
Start/suchen/Dateien und Ordner
clic by "Weiter Optionen" and check
Versteckte Elemente durchsuchen
Immer noch nicht?
Alison Riddell-Kachur wrote: And I can't find normal.dot either although I know it must be there...
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